Diet - moderate positive correlation with obesity and infant mortality and moderate negative correlation with high school graduation rates.

Kottke - popular in WI and MN, moderate positive correlation with votes for Obama, and moderate negative correlation with votes for Bush.

Cuisine - This was my best attempt at a word with strong correlations but wasn't overly clustered in an obvious way (e.g. blue/red states, urban/rural, etc.). Strong positive correlation with same sex couples and votes for Obama and strong negative correlation with energy consumption and votes for Bush.

I could do this all day. A note on the site about correlation vs. causality:

Be careful drawing conclusions from this data. For example, the fact that walmart shows a moderate correlation with "Obesity" does not imply that people who search for "walmart" are obese! It only means that states with a high obesity rate tend to have a high rate of users searching for walmart, and vice versa. You should not infer causality from this tool: In the walmart example, the high correlation is driven partly by the fact that both obesity and Walmart stores are prevalent in the southeastern U.S., and these two facts may have independent explanations.

Can you find any searches that show some interesting results? Strong correlations are not that easy to find (although foie gras is a good one). (thx, ben)

Being from North Carolina (and half of a same sex couple) I thought the NASCAR results were quite telling.

Currently in FL, so no surprise that HURRICANE leads to both FL and LA.

I thought it was fun to compare YOGA and GAY MARRIAGE.

They both show up in almost the same states, while YOGA has the strongest same-sex couple correlation and then GAY MARRIAGE almost a non-existent same-sex correlation. The strongest correlation for GAY MARRIAGE was life expectancy.

The gays are looking for yoga instructors and the old people are worried about gay marriage?

Cool tool. After cruising a few terms, I found it kind of interesting to just search states (e.g. California). Though things like Area, and Latitude become meaningless, it's kind of interesting to just compare states' "baseline" data.

I had earlier done similar economy-related searches, but in a much more crude fashion. And I was looking for more temporal trends (link). Most of the terms that show up on Google Trends don't seem to have enough data here though.

I was amused at how few people from outside of my state queried "Oklahoma."
Oklahoma 100.0
Kansas 4.0
Arkansas 3.0
Texas 3.0
It doesn't surprise me that we're most associated with "VotedforBush" being that OK was the only state that McCain carried every single county...

Its rather discouraging as a conservative that those who would vote in that direction consistently reveal a sense of tackiness and ignorance- because conservative intellectual thought has a strong and cohesive tradition. So while Nascar is trumpeted, conservatives are rarely identified (intellectually) as

arugula is similar to and even more polarizing than fois gras and yet the two are really not alike at all. I can understand the love/hate with fois gras, but arugula is really just bitter lettuce! Come on, flyovers, try some!

"Interracial" has a strong positive correlation with infant mortality and a strong negative correlation with high school grad and is most often searched among the Southeastern and Midwest states. I just wonder in what context they are searching under.....